Improvement in cherry-fitters



w. B. KNAPP.

Chrry-Pitters,

10,158,420 l 'Patentgdlamilam WITNESSES: "WENTU:

' @ik i "Y UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIcEo WILLIAM B. KNAPP, OF TEOUMSEH,

MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND FRANK BUMANN, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHERRY-PITTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,420, dated January 5, i875; application tiled August 15, 1874.

To all whom t may concern: Y

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. KNAPP, of Tecumseh,in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gherry-Pitter, of which the following is a specification:

The ligure is a longitudinal section of my improved cherry-pitter.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved device for removing the pits from cherries, which shall be simple in construction and convenient in use, being so constructed as 'to remove the pit Without the loss of the juice,`and without the loss of any of the substance of the cherry, leaving the cherries Whole and ready for use.

The invention consists in a cherrypitter formed of a tube,.open at both ends, having a knob or handle placed upon one end, and teeth formed upon its other end, as hereinafm ter fully described.

A is a tube, open at both ends, and upon one of its ends is secured a knob or handle, B, through which the said tube passes. Upon the other end of the tube A are formed teeth c', which are made sharp and slight-ly arin g at their points. A

In using the pitter, a cherry is pressed against the toothed end of the tube A, which causes the pit to drop through the tube A into a receiver, leaving the cherry Whole and ready for use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 

